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Second Line Injectable Drug Resistance and Associated Genetic Mutations in Newly Diagnosed Cases of Multidrug-Resistant Tuberculosis.
Microbial drug resistance (Larchmont, N.Y.) - 1 Aug 2020
Ramakrishna Vangala, Singh Pravin Kumar, Prakash Shantanu, Jain Amita
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Aim: To investigate the phenotypic and genotypic profile of multidrug-resistant (MDR) Mycobacterium tuberculosis (MTB) clinical isolates with reference to second-line injectable drugs (SLIDs). Methods: A total of 110 MTB isolates, recovered consecutively from confirmed MDR-TB patients between March and June 2016, were included in this study. Phenotypic drug susceptibility testing against SLIDs (Kanamycin,...
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